The Russian Foreign Ministry intends to stop flights of American tiltrotors over the “mother of Russian cities”
Ukraine is involved in NATO activities to a greater extent than some member countries of the Alliance.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov announced this today at a press conference in Geneva, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In recent months and years, we have observed the most active development by the North Atlantic Alliance as an organization, and especially by some countries included in this association, of the territory of Ukraine and other states in close proximity to Russia.
In some respects, NATO’s interaction with Ukraine today is both more advanced than the work of some members of the Alliance in terms of contribution to solving the problems facing this bloc, and more dangerous for us, because it is just nearby.
Starting with the number of sorties, ship calls at Ukrainian ports, training missions of a number of NATO states on the territory of Ukraine. Flights of all types of aviation, including strategic bombers, simulating cruise missile attacks on Crimea. These bombers fly at a distance of 15 km from the border with Russia. Flights of convertiplanes over the Dnieper in Kyiv are the mother of Russian cities,” said Ryabkov.
He stressed that Russia will continue to conduct on its territory those military exercises that it considers necessary.
“All this taken together leaves us no choice but to intensify educational and training activities on our territory. Thank God, there are no restrictions on this within the framework of the defunct Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe...
We have conducted and will continue to conduct these training events on our territory, because just as NATO cares about its security, we also care about our security and do what we consider necessary. At the same time, we unconditionally firmly and clearly comply with all our obligations in the field of arms control and non-proliferation, no matter what our opponents say on this matter,” Ryabkov concluded.
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